Ch10 E Commerce

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Identify the unique features of e-commerce, digital markets, and digital goods.

• Describe how Internet technology has changed business models.

• Identify the various types of e-commerce and explain how e-commerce has changed consumer retailing and business-to-business transactions.

• Evaluate the role of m-commerce in business, and describe the most important m-commerce applications.

• Identify the principal payment systems for electronic commerce.

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Electronic Commerce and the Internet

• E-Business

• refers to the use of digital technology and the Internet to execute the major business processes in the enterprise.

• E-business includes activities for the internal management of the firm and for coordination with suppliers and other business partners. It also includes e-commerce.

• E-commerce

• is the part of e-business that deals with the buying and selling of goods and services over the Internet.

• It encompasses activities supporting those market transactions, such as advertising, marketing, customer support, security, delivery, and payment.




• E-commerce

• Use of the Internet and Web to transact business

• Digitally enabled transactions

• History of e-commerce

• Began in 1995 and grew exponentially; still growing at an annual rate of 16 percent

• Rapid growth led to market bubble

• While many companies failed, many survived with soaring revenues

• E-commerce today the fastest growing form of retail trade in U.S., Europe, Asia



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Retail e-commerce revenues have grown exponentially since 1995 and have only recently “slowed” to a very rapid 16 percent annual increase, which is projected to remain the same until 2010.

The Growth of E-CommerceThe Growth of E-Commerce




• Eight unique features of e-commerce technology

1. Ubiquity

• Internet/Web technology available everywhere: work, home, etc., and anytime

2. Global reach

• The technology reaches across national boundaries, around Earth

3. Universal standards

• One set of technology standards: Internet standards

4. Richness

• Supports video, audio, and text messages




• Eight unique features (cont.)

5. Interactivity

• The technology works through interaction with the user

6. Information density

• Vast increases in information density—the total amount and quality of information available to all market participants

7. Personalization/Customization:

• Technology permits modification of messages, goods

8. Social technology

• The technology promotes user content generation and social networking




• Key concepts in e-commerce: The effects of digital markets on the ways companies conduct business.

• Digital markets reduce

• Information asymmetry

• Search costs:

• Transaction costs:

• Menu costs:

• Digital markets enable

• Price discrimination

• Dynamic pricing

• Disintermediation




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The typical distribution channel has several intermediary layers, each of which adds to the final cost of a product, such as a sweater. Removing layers lowers the final cost to the consumer.

The Benefits of Disintermediation to the ConsumerThe Benefits of Disintermediation to the Consumer



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• Key concepts in e-commerce (cont.)

• Digital goods

• Goods that can be delivered over a digital network

• E.g., Music tracks, video, software, newspapers, books

• Cost of producing first unit almost entire cost of product: marginal cost of producing 2nd unit is about zero

• Costs of delivery over the Internet very low

• Marketing costs remain the same; pricing highly variable

• Industries with digital goods are undergoing revolutionary changes (publishers, record labels, etc.)



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• Internet business models• Pure-play models

• Clicks-and-mortar models

• Social Network• Online meeting place

• Social shopping sites

• Can provide ways for corporate clients to target customers through banner ads and pop-up ads

• Online marketplace: • Provides a digital environment where buyers and sellers can

meet, search for products, display products, and establish prices for those products



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• Content provider

• Providing digital content, such as digital news, music, photos, or video, over the Web

• Online syndicators: Aggregate content from multiple sources, package for distribution, and resell to third-party Web sites

• Service provider

• Provides Web 2.0 applications such as photo sharing and interactive maps, and services such as data storage

• Portal

• “Supersite” that provides comprehensive entry point for huge array of resources and services on the Internet



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• Virtual storefront:

• Sells physical products directly to consumers or to individual businesses. Such as Amazon.com

• Information broker:

• Provides product, pricing, and availability information to individuals and businesses. Such as Realtor.com.

• Transaction broker:

• Saves users money and time by processing online sales transactions and generating a fee for each transaction, Such as E*Trade.com



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Types of Electronic CommerceTypes of Electronic Commerce

• Business-to-consumer (B2C)• Retailing products and services to individual shoppers

• Business-to-business (B2B)

• Sales of goods and services among businesses

• Consumer-to-consumer (C2C)

• Consumers selling directly to other consumers

• Mobile commerce (m-commerce)

• the purchase of goods and services using handheld wireless devices.


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• Interactive marketing and personalization

• Web sites are bountiful source of details about customer behavior, preferences, buying patterns used to tailor promotions, products, services, and pricing

• Clickstream tracking tools: Collect data on customer activities at Web sites

• Used to create personalized Web pages

• Collaborative filtering: Compares customer data to other customers to make product recommendations


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• Blogs• Personal web pages that contain series of chronological

entries by author and links to related Web pages

• Has increasing influence in politics, news

• Corporate blogs: New channels for reaching customers, introducing new products and services

• Blog analysis by marketers

• Customer self-service• Web sites and e-mail to answer customer questions or to

provide customers with product information

• Reduces need for human customer-support expert


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• B2B e-commerce: New efficiencies and relationships• Electronic data interchange (EDI)

• Computer-to-computer exchange of standard transactions such as invoices, purchase orders

• Major industries have EDI standards that define structure and information fields of electronic documents for that industry

• More companies increasingly moving away from private networks to Internet for linking to other firms• E.g., Procurement: Businesses can now use Internet to locate

most low-cost supplier, search online catalogs of supplier products, negotiate with suppliers, place orders, etc.


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Figure 10-5

Companies use EDI to automate transactions for B2B e-commerce and continuous inventory replenishment. Suppliers can automatically send data about shipments to purchasing firms. The purchasing firms can use EDI to provide production and inventory requirements and payment data to suppliers.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)


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• Private industrial networks (private exchanges)

• Large firm using extranet to link to its suppliers, distributors and other key business partners

• Owned by buyer

• Permits sharing of:

• Product design and development

• Marketing

• Production scheduling and inventory management

• Unstructured communication (graphics and e-mail)

• A private industrial network, also known as a private exchange, links a firm to its suppliers, distributors, and other key business partners for efficient supply chain management and other collaborative commerce activities.


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• Net marketplaces (e-hubs)

• Single market for many buyers and sellers

• Industry-owned or owned by independent intermediary

• Generate revenue from transaction fees, other services

• Use prices established through negotiation, auction, RFQs, or fixed prices

• May focus on direct or indirect goods

• May support long-term contract purchasing or short-term spot purchasing

• May serve vertical or horizontal marketplaces


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Figure 10-7

Net marketplaces are online marketplaces where multiple buyers can purchase from multiple sellers.

A Net MarketplaceA Net Marketplace


Electronic Commerce

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Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C)

• Online auctions– Electronic auction (e-auction) - Sellers

and buyers solicit consecutive bids from each other and prices are determined dynamically

– Forward auction - Sellers use the site as a selling channel to many buyers and the highest bid wins

– Reverse auction - Buyers use the site to purchase a product or service, selecting the seller with the lowest bid

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M-Commerce

• M-commerce services and applications

• Although m-commerce represents small fraction of total e-commerce transactions, revenue has been steadily growing

• Location-based services

• Banking and financial services

• Wireless Advertising

• Games and entertainment


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Figure 10-8

M-commerce sales represent a small fraction of total e-commerce sales, but that percentage is steadily growing.

Global M-commerce Revenue 2000-2012Global M-commerce Revenue 2000-2012


M-Commerce

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• Limitations in mobile’s access of Web information

• Data limitations

• Small display screens

• Wireless portals (mobile portals)

• Feature content and services optimized for mobile devices to steer users to information they are most likely to need


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• Types of electronic payment systems

• Digital wallet

• Stores credit card and owner identification information and enters the shopper’s name, credit card number, and shipping information automatically when invoked to complete a purchase

• Accumulated balance digital payment systems

• Used for micropayments ($10 or less)

• Accumulating debit balance that is paid periodically on credit card or telephone bills


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• Stored value payment systems• Enable online payments based on value stored in online

digital account

• May be merchant platforms or peer-to-peer (PayPal)

• Digital checking• Extend functionality of existing checking accounts to be used

for online payments

• Electronic billing presentment and payment systems• Paying monthly bills through electronic fund transfers or credit

cards


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• Digital payments systems for m-commerce

• Three types of mobile payment systems in use in Japan

• Stored value system charged by credit cards or bank accounts

• Mobile debit cards

• Mobile credit cards

• In the U.S., the cell phone has not yet evolved into a mobile payment system



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NEW TRENDS IN E-BUSINESS: E-GOVERNMENT

• E-government - refers to the application of the Internet and networking technologies to digitally enable government and public sector agencies' relationships with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government.

• In addition to improving delivery of government services, e-government can make government operations more efficient and also empower citizens by giving them easier access to information.

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